Tue., 10/1

Do Now: Exercise 14A: Complete Exercise 14A as a pop quiz. Open book. Open notes.

Exercise 13C: Write an open-ended discussion question (one or two complete sentences) about The Prophecies of Neferty.

Exercise 13D: Summarize the significance and historical context of The Prophecies of Neferty in five or more complete sentences. Your answer must include all of the details in the Model answer, and may follow the Model answer verbatim as a minimum, although you are free to expand upon the model and include quotes from the text. Model answer: The Prophecies of Neferty was a story written by the scribes of Amenhemet I, the first pharaoh of Dynasty 12. In the story, the powerful pharaoh of Dynasty 4 for whom the Bent Pyramid was built, Snefru, calls upon a lector priest, Neferty, to tell him about the future. Snefru writes down Neferty’s prophecy in his own hand, lending authoritative – albeit imaginary – weight to the story. Neferty describes the horrors of the Intermediate Period, between Dynasties 5 and 11, and “predicts” that a great king, i.e., Amenhemet, will arise in a re-unified Egypt to restore social order, personified as the goddess, Ma’at. Of course, this “prediction” had already come to pass when it was written in Dynasty 12, but it served Amenhemet as propaganda justifying his takeover of the throne from the Mentuhotep family of Dynasty 11.

HW—20 min.: Complete Exercise 13D. You can turn in Field Notes No. 13 tomorrow or Thursday. Study for the exam.